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BARNEYv REAR, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

Lettera Patent No. 73,755, dated January 28, 1868.

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Be it known that I, BARNEY REAR, of the city of Toronto, in the Province oi' Ontario, and 'Dominionof Canada, painter, have invented a new and improved method of making Spring-Beds, Mattresses, Sofa-Bottoms, Chai1'Bottoms, and all articles of upholstery, orother; articles in which springs are required orused; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the acconrpanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention consists chiefly in a. novel method of attaching spiral springs to the slats or strips of webbing,

or other material which may be employed in the structure of bed-bottoms, Ste. It further consists in connecting together the side and end pieces, and applying the central brace oi' the bed-bottom, in such a manner that said side pieces and brace may be readily detached, so esto permit the bed to be rolled up for convenience of transportation.

Figure l is a perspective view oi' a bed-bottom illustrating my invention. Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same, and Figure 3 is a detached view. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Y In the drawings, A A may represent the side pieces, and B B the end pieces of the frame of a bed-bottom. When strips of webbing, C C C, are employed in lieu of slats, the longitudinal strips may be fastened tothe end pieces B B, as shown; but the transverse strips are made continuous, and, being made sufiiciently secure by the fastenings atA their points of intersection with.the longitudinal strips, are simply passed around the side pieces A A, without being fastened thereto. The sidepieces A and end pieces B are gonnected'together at their ends by mortise-and-tenon joints; the open-sided mortises b in the end pieces B permitting the tenons a on the side pieces A to be slipped out laterally. Hence the side pieces A may be detached and removed, as

also the central bar D, and, when this is done, the bed-bottom may be rolled up compactly for transportation.

The central bar D is merely interposed between the end vpieoes'B B, and serves as a brace to prevent said end pieces from springing inward. `It can be` lifted out with facility. E E E are interposed spiral springs, which are employed, as usual, to give elasticity to the webbing, or to slats which may be used in lieu thereof. The upper and lower ends of these springs are held in sockets f, formed by suitably bending the pieces, F, of sheet metal or other suitable material. These socket-pieces F" may be fastened to the webbing C by the rivets c", which fasten the longitudinal strips to the transverse strips at the points where they cross each other. Separate rivets may, however, be employed to attach the socket-pieces, and they may be likewise attached to slats when the latter are usedin place of webbing. This mode of fastening the springs is believed to be more simple and secure, and, at the same time, less expensive than any heretofore devised.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the springs E, sockets F, and webs() C, supported bya frame having detachable side i pieces A, substantially as and'i'or the purposes set forth.

DARNEY REAR. Witnesses:

T. HENRY Iron, R. WINSTANLEY. 

